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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, I can understand that. As a game, it had a lot going for it. The user community...and actually the community for every Blizzard game, now that I think about it...was really not so good.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">As a game, the most vivid image that sticks in my mind is a giant spacecraft being shot down by a little man with an assault rifle.

And the community of ANY Blizzard game is terrible, for one very simple reason: As a massmarket game, it'll have a massmarket community. Did I mention that 90% of such a community will be composed of smacktards?

[ March 12, 2004, 21:24: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't know...Blizzard's games (and especially their forums) seem to attract, for whatever reason, an exceptionally special kind of smacktard. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Korean smacktards. Not only are they Korean, so their English is already going to suffer understandably, but they're ALSO smacktards! Even if they were speaking in KOREAN, they would STILL be incomprehensible! There's nothing worse than English-as-a-second-language smacktards.

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Hey! I resent that! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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[quote]Originally posted by fahdiz:
I guess what I'm looking for (and I suppose I should have been clearer, since I've gotten a lot of these types of responses) is not so much old classics (as I've been a computer/board/pen-and-paper gamer for a long time) but more the "relatively recently-released, unknown/unsung, unjustly ignored" types of games. I do thank you for the suggestion, though. [...]

I've seen people mention Nethack in this thread, but no one mentioning the Angband derivatives. (Also note: my first post here, I have no idea how quotes / Posts get formatted, so...) Nethack is a classic, with 99 ways to die just with the kitchen sink. I'm not always so sure this is a plus. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

But the Angband derivatives.... Text only (meaning the graphics are only _slightly_ inferior to Dominions 2 (this is meant as a bad joke )), but the magic, weapon, monster, crypt systems... Some of the derivatives suck - for my tastes. Some of the same ones rule - for people with slightly different tastes. There's one's loosely based on Zelazny's Amber (Zangband), on McCaffrey's Pern, etc.

Some have graphics, some don't, some are infuriatingly difficult, others are more difficult *grin* and a few have settings that make things easy. Most have "Ironman" settings, to eliminate any sense of easy, and reduce a game to a matter of hours instead of weeks.

Current games - I've been disappointed in most. But the Dominions 2 demo drew me in enough that even unemployment didn't keep me from ordering it.

Past games? Master of Magic. If it weren't for the mid-to-end-game bugs (ethereal flying ships, etc), I'd still be playing it. Warlords 1 (the original map and race layout was classic / superb). Age of Wonders 2, Shadow Magic? Not so sure about that one, as you get locked into certain magic paths, which gets old.

Anyways - any new Dom2 games starting up soon? I hope to have my full copy tomorrow. (Then again, I hoped to have it Wednesday.)

Rome wasn't burnt in a day,
Cainehill

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Myth II was very good, but I still have a soft spot for Starcraft. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I may be biased, since Myth II is the only RTS I've ever been any good at. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Still, the lack of resource gathering & unit production makes for a different, IMO much better experience. It's not about who can build new units the fastest, as games like Starcraft tend to be.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">See, that kind of deadliness is exactly what I aspire to when creating my own game. Already I can lay claim to the fact that back when it was actually in service as a game, we had more ways to die than any other game of that type.

Clearly, I need more ways to die. Particularly stupid ways, because watching people die stupidly is a national pasttime over on my site.

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Sometimes I died in nethack from choking to death trying to eat a fortune cookie when really stuffed. Nethack is great http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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As opposed to Nethack, ADOM! It's a hard game, though, and not an easy one to get hold of. But believe me, once you learn the ASCII you can read through the game! For some reason I can't stand the graphics of older Ultimas but I have no problems playing ADOM. BTW, in ADOM you can't choose to play Ironman. It is the norm, and the only possibility programmed in the game...

Wonderful game, anyway. BTW, Illwinter links to ADOM, Dungeon Crawl AND Slash'em. I have thought I should try Crawl too. Has anyone here tried it? How it compares to ADOM?